Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!sun-barr!ames!dftsrv!mimsy!mimsy.umd.edu!mpf From: mpf@triplea.cs.umd.edu (Martin Farach) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: Editing a file as super user Message-ID: Date: 12 Sep 89 17:53:54 GMT References: Sender: nobody@mimsy.UUCP Distribution: gnu Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 32 In-reply-to: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu's message of 12 Sep 89 12:25:50 GMT In article karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: M-x terminal YourShellPrompt> su Password: YourSUPrompt# emacs [edit to your heart's discontent] ^X^C YourSUPrompt# It is deeply weird to see Emacs running inside Emacs. It takes some getting used to. --Karl Of course, if his system dies with two emacs proccesses running independently, it will also die with one emacs running within another emacs. Martin -- ******************************************************************************* * Martin Farach | * * University of Maryland | * * Department of Computer Science | * * College Park, Maryland 20742 | * * | * * also know as: | * * mpf@brillig.umd.edu | * *******************************************************************************